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I FIRE PLAGE. No. 426,477. Patented Apr. 29, 1890.

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LIONEL HENRY TEALE, OF LEEDS, ENGLAND.

FIRE-PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 426,477,dated April 29,1890,

Application filedJuly 31, 1889- Serial No. 319,316- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, LIONEL HENRY TEALE, gentleman, a subject of theQueen of Great Britain, residing at 38 Oookri'dge Street, Leeds, andNorth Grange, Headingley, Leeds, England, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Fire-Places, of which the following is aspecification.

I form a fireplace with a hob or raised hearth at the front, which comesabove the level of the bottom bars. Beneath the bars I place a tray ordrawer, which can be pulled forward from time to time to remove theashes which drop into it. A passage is formed through the front hob topermit of the tray being so drawn forward. A door or grating withadjustable air-inlets may be applied to the front of this opening. Theback I make to incline forward over the fire-bars and the products ofcombustion I make to enter the chimney above the top of this inclinedback, as in some fire-places heretofore made. In some cases I prolongthe chimney downward behind the block which forms the inclined back, andprovide an opening at the bottom of this prolongation of the chimneyinto the ash-pit. Any soot that may fall will thus fall behind the backand into the ash-pit, and can be removed when the tray or drawer isremoved.

The drawings hereunto annexed show examples of fire-places constructedaccording to my invention.

Figure 1 is a front view, and Fig. 2 a vertical section, of one of thefire-places with a front hob, but without the continuation of thechimney-fiue in rear of the inclined back. Fig. 3 is a front view of asimilar fire-place, but more ornamental in style. Fig. 4 is a verticalsection of a fire-place, showing 110w it may be formed with acontinuation of the chimney in rear of the inclined back.

In the figures, A are the fire-bars.

B is the sloping back, which, as well as the sides of the fire-place, ispreferably made of fire-brick.

O is the front 110b, of fire-brick or other suitable fire-resistinmaterial. Preferably I make the hob a fixture, but it might be movable.The back of the hob where it comes in front of the fire may be straight,as shown, or it may be curved either in a vertical or horizontal plane,or in both, so that the fire may come farther out into the room.

D is the ash tray or drawer below the firebars, and E the passagethrough the front raised hob, which is made to allow of the tray ordrawer being drawn forward.

F in Fig. 4 is the continuation of the chimney in rear of the inclinedback, and G the opening from it into the ash-pit.

Preferably when the fire-place is formed with the chimney so continueddownward in rear of the inclined back, I form the ash tray or drawerwith a plate projecting backward from it, which, when the tray or draweris in place, closes the opening at the bottom of the a continuationofthe chimney.

Fire-places constructed as hereinbefore described may be used forburning coal, coke, or wood, or may be used as a receptacle for agas-stove or fire.

That I claim is 1. A fire-place with the front .hob standing up abovethe fire-bars, which are arranged above the floor, and closing in thefront of the fire-placeabove the grate-bars, the front hob being formedwith an opening below its top communicating with the ash-pit,substantially as described.

2. The combination, substantially as described, of grate-bars arrangedabove the floor, the front hob closing in the front of the fire-placeand extending above the grate-bars, and the ash-pan below the fire-barsremovable through an opening in the front of the hob.

3. A fire-place with the back inclined forward over the fire-bars nearlyto or beyond the bottom of the chimney and having its top inclinedbackwardly, with the chimney prolonged downward in rear of the inclinedback, with the top of the back which comes underneath the bottom of thechimney inclined, so that all matters dropping on it fall into theprolongation of the chimney, and not into the fire, and with an openingfrom the bottom of the chimney-prolongation into the ash-pit.

LIONEL HENRY TEALE.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM VEVERS, HENRY S. LENTY, Clerks to T. H Greenwood Teale,Solicitors cmd Notaries Public, Leeds, England.

